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Welcome to "Manage a Site dot com", the home of over two hundred clean concise video tutorials
to help you build and maintain Drupal websites. If you arrived here without knowing much about
Drupal or how to engineer websites, don't worry. These videos will take you step by
step, clearing explaining what to do and why to do it.
In our flagship series, called "Build Your First Drupal Seven Web Site" we start from
square one. With a fresh Drupal installation and work through the process of building a
fully functional website, touching on the most critical concepts around working with
Drupal, exploring many of the important third party contributions and forging the tools
that you'll need to deal with unanticipated issues as they arise.
My name is Chris Shattuck and I'll be your guide through this series. I've been working
with Drupal for many years now and I know first hand how much time you can save when
you have the right resources at hand.
I built "Manage a Sit dot com" from the ground up to be that resource. "Manage A site" is
a growing repository of over two hundred bite size tutorials. And as a subscriber, you'll
not only get access to the complete library, but also to new videos released every week,
and simple effective tools to help you track your progress.
Viewers have had a lot of great things to say about "Build A Module dot com", the first
video tutorial site leveraging the techniques used in these series. If you've ever attempted
to learn through video tutorials, you know that it's a challenge to find the right information,
delivered in the right way. With "Manage a Site dot com", each tutorial is clear and
to the point. Viewers have enjoyed the pace of the videos, regardless of whether they're
just starting out or already have some experience under their belt.
"Manage a Site dot com" is about learning how to build and manage websites using Drupal.
You don't have to be a developer. And you don't have to know code. You don't even have
to know how to set up a web server. Later in this introduction, we walk you through
how to quickly install Drupal, just like any other desktop application. It' super easy.
And you can start playing with Drupal literally in minutes. From there, we launch into a practical
scenario where we've been hired by a company to build a fairly simple website. But one
that will require exploring much of what you'll need to build virtually any other website
in Drupal.
So who are these videos for? First of all, these videos are great if you're just starting
to build websites or have been building them for a while. There also perfect for web shop
clients who want to get to know their Drupal sites a bit better. Drupal training companies
are also using our videos to enhance in-person training by being able to give their students
material that they can review out of class.
After you complete this series, you'll be surprised at just how much you'll be able
to accomplish as you dive into real life projects. You'll be able to answer complicated questions
like 'How to you find a well maintained module that provides a functionality that you need
for your site?' And you've just installed a module but have no idea how it's works.
What do you do first? And how can you interlink related content automatically? My guess is
that you're ready to jump in so I won't keep you much longer.
In the next couple of videos, we take you on a quick tour of the site so that you can
get the most your of your online experience. And we also walk you through a quick installation
process, if you don't already have a Drupal site set up.
The "Manage a Site dot com" subscription is priced to be extremely affordable in order
to make visual learning for Drupal site builders as accessible as possible. And there are also
a couple of ways you can get the videos to take with you on the go. One is by purchasing
a download, either in standard or high definition form, or as a DVD, which includes both the
standard and the high definition versions of the videos.
Any purchase includes a resource pack which contains mockups, images and sample data that
we use in the videos. Let me just say that I'm glad you're here. Video learning requires
a leap of faith, but the payoff is incredible when you find the right resource. You get
where you want to go faster and you learn a lot more along the way than you would with
many other methods.
Our viewers have confirmed over and over again that the techniques used in these videos work.
So I'm confident that your're in the right place.
You're about to embark in an immersive Drupal learning experience that's hard to find anywhere
else. Enjoy!